Unity Valkyrie Mitford

1914 - 1948  (33 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Unity Valkyrie Mitford
  Birth	8. August 1914	London, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 May 1948	Oban, Scotland
  Siblings	6 Siblings
  1. Nancy Mitford,   b. 1904   d. 1973  (Age 69 years) ▻ Peter Murray Rennell Rodd,  m. 1933   2. Pamela Mitford,   b. 1907   d. 1994  (Age 87 years) ▻ Prof. Derek Ainslie Jackson   3. Major Thomas David Mitford,   b. 1909   d. 1945  (Age 36 years) + 4. Diana Freeman-Mitford,   b. Jun 1910   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Bryan Walter Guinness,  m. 30 Jan 1929 ;   Oswald Ernald Mosley   5. Unity Valkyrie Mitford,   b. 8. August 1914, London, Middlesex, England d. 28 May 1948, Oban, Scotland  (Age 33 years) ▻ Adolph Hitler   6. Jessica Lucy Mitford,   b. 11 Sep 1917, Burford, Oxfordshire, England d. 22 Jul 1996, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA  (Age 78 years) ▻ Esmond Marcus David Romilly,  m. 1937 ;   Robert Treuhaft,  m. 1943 + 7. Deborah Vivien Mitford,   b. 31 Mar 1920, Kensington, London, Middlesex, England d. 2014  (Age 93 years)
  Person ID	I755694	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Unity Valkyrie Mitford at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford,   b. 13 Mar 1878   d. 17 Mar 1958 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sydney Bowles   d. 1963
  Family ID	F66883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adolph Hitler,   b. 20 Apr 1889, Braunau am Inn, Oberösterreich, Österreich d. 30 Apr 1945, Führerbunker, Berlin,, Deutschland (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	Type: relationship
  In December 2007, Bright published an article in New Statesman stating that following a previous article on Unity Mitford, he had received a phone call from a Ms Val Hann, a member of the public, offering new information on the story. The caller said that during the war, her aunt, Betty Norton, had run Hill View Cottage, a private maternity hospital in Oxford where Mitford had been a client.[2] According to Hann's family legend, passed from Betty to Val's mother and then on to Val herself, Mitford had checked into the hospital after her return to England where she had given birth to Hitler's child, who was subsequently given up for adoption. Bright states he was initially sceptical.[2][20] Bright traveled to Wigginton where the current owner of Hill View confirmed that Norton had indeed run the cottage as a maternity hospital during the war. Bright met with elderly village resident Audrey Smith, whose sister had worked at Hill View. She confirmed seeing "Unity wrapped in a blanket and looking very ill" but insisted that she was there to recover from a nervous breakdown and not to give birth. Bright also contacted Unity's sister Deborah who denounced the villager's gossip and claimed she could produce her mother's diaries to prove it. Bright returned to the National Archives where he found a file on Unity sealed under the 100-year rule. He received special permission to open it and discovered that in October 1941, while living at the family home in Swinbrook, she had been consorting with a married RAF test pilot – throwing doubt on her reported invalidity.[2] Bright then abandoned the investigation, until he mentioned the story to an executive from Channel 4 who thought it was a good subject for a documentary film. Further investigation was then undertaken as part of the filming for Hitler's British Girl.[1] This included a visit to an Oxfordshire register office, showing an abnormally large number of birth registrations at Hill View at that time, apparently confirming its use as a maternity hospital. No records were found for Mitford, although the records officer stated many births were not registered at this time. The publication of the article and the broadcast of the film the following week stimulated media speculation that Hitler's child could be living in the United Kingdom
  Family ID	F330325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2020

  
  

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